Strategic Analysis   5

Background
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), intends to issue a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP) 89243321RFE000050 as an unrestricted full and open competition for Strategic Analysis (SA). The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) requires contractor support services to fulfill its mission of driving innovation and delivering solutions for an environmentally sustainable and prosperous energy future. These services are to provide high-quality, flexible, and timely technical and associated administrative support for strategic systems analysis and engineering, laboratory-wide strategic planning, program planning and partnerships. The resulting benefits of this support will ensure NETL’s position as the nation’s premier energy technology laboratory, delivering integrated solutions to enable transformation to a sustainable energy future.

Work Details
The support requires expertise in a multitude of scientific, engineering, mathematical, business, and economic disciplines with deep experience applying these disciplines to the U.S. energy and industry systems considering both existing energy technologies and systems as well as emerging and innovative technologies and system designs. The support shall focus on four major types of activities: (1) planning for the strategic direction of NETL and the programs implemented at NETL; (2) conducting comprehensive energy analysis across a range of scales from energy markets, resource availability and distribution, to technoeconomic and life cycle analysis of specific programs, technologies and systems; (3) the development and application of modeling and analysis tools and capabilities that address emerging challenges that cannot be adequately addressed with existing approaches; and (4) identification and cultivation of partners and sponsors/customers for NETL R&D and analysis, enabling technology transfer and maturation, ultimately expanding and enhancing the national impact of NETL capabilities.
Specific functions/activities to be performed include strategic planning, energy and economic trend and scenario analysis, program and portfolio guidance and assessment, design, optimization, and analysis of integrated energy systems, novel energy technology assessment, energy model development and enhancement, sponsor/partnership development, technology transfer, process systems engineering research, energy process and cost assessment, life cycle analysis, energy and financial markets assessment.

Period of Performance
The resulting contract will be a cost-plus award-fee contract with a base performance period of three years and one two-year option period. The anticipated award date for the resulting contract will be in November 2021 with an effective date of April 2022.

Place of Performance
Anticipated work assignments for this service contract would support activities across all NETL sites, with primary on-site presence in Morgantown, WV and Pittsburgh, PA, and include travel to other DOE locations.